What is your report about?

At this point, you can enter a notice in accordance with the German HinSchG or comparable national laws (e.g. Loi Sapin II, Wet betreffende de bescherming van klokkenluiders, Wet Huiis voor klokkenluiders, Loi du 16 mai 2023 portant transposition de la directive (UE) 2019/1937 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 23 octobre 2019 sur la protection des personnes qui signalent des violations du droit de l`Union - Mémorial A No 232 de 2023).
In particular, it covers offences against criminal law and certain provisions of administrative offence law and EU law. The types of offences covered under German law can be found in the catalogue of § 2 HinSchG.

At this point you can submit a notification of a possible violation of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (violation of corporate due diligence obligations pursuant to Section 2 LkSG).

At this point, you can report an offence against the German Money Laundering Act (GwG), e.g. the smuggling of money of illegal origin into the financial cycle, for example by paying with money from drug deals or arms trafficking or terrorist financing.

This is where you can report suspected corruption offences or suspected other white-collar crimes, e.g. bribery and corruption, insolvency offences, fraud offences, financing offences.

Here you can submit a report on suspicion of an antitrust or competition law offence. This includes violations of the free market economy, fair competition and harm to consumers, particularly through unauthorised price agreements.

A data breach is any event in which the confidentiality of personal data has been violated. The breach can occur through unauthorised access, unauthorised use, unauthorised disclosure, unauthorised loss or unauthorised destruction of personal data.

This is where you can submit a report of suspected compliance violations. A compliance violation occurs when the applicable existing requirements are not adhered to. This can occur, for example, through non-compliance with laws, guidelines or internal company requirements. This also includes suspected cases that cannot be categorised as above.